For the annual Monster Drawing Rally auction, Southern Exposure asks a motley of artists to sit down to draw images in one hour time slots throughout a single evening. The event provides opportunities for individuals to purchase original works by artists for reasonable prices and is an important fundraiser for Southern Exposure, a non-profit gallery. When artists finish their 'original' artworks, the gallery attendants place the drawings in clear plastic bags, tape them to the wall, indicate the artist's name, and assign them tracking numbers.

For the event, Steve Shada and myself took brought pieces of vellum, placed them over others' drawings. We traced not only the drawing but its sticker with name and numerical coding, the flaws on the wall around the drawing, and all the signifiers of its auction-ness. These drawings were in turn placed in baggies, assigned a name and number, creating a trompe-l'oeuil effect and a recursive loop in regards to authorship.